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Economic Impact of Nanotechnology
Economic Impact of Nanotechnology
Economic Impact of Nanotechnology
Industrial Revolutions
First Revolution
(17801840)
Based in United Kingdom Steam Engine Textile Industry Mechanical Engineering
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Industrial Revolutions
Second Revolution
(18401900)
Based in Europe England, France, Germany Railways Steel Industry
2004
Industrial Revolutions
Third Revolution
(19001950)
Based in United States Electric Engine Heavy Chemicals Automobiles Consumer Durables
2004
Industrial Revolutions
Fourth Revolution
(1950Present)
Based in Pacific Basin California, Japan Synthetics Organic Chemicals (Oil) Computers
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Fifth Revolution
(2010? ??)
Based in Developing World? China? India? Brazil? Nanotechnology Molecular Manufacturing
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Accelerated Impacts
Molecular Manufacturing Revolution
Industrial Revolutions
Time
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A transformative, disruptive, discontinuous jolt to ecological, economic, political, and social systems on a local, national, and global scale.
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Transformative Impact
The combined impacts of nanotechnology will equal the Industrial Revolutions of the last two centuries but with all that change compressed into just a few years.
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Portable, desktop-size factories social disruption Impacts will cross borders global transformation
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Inside a Nanofactory
2004
Benefits + Risks
An automated, self-contained factory could provide...
Lifesaving medical robots
or
Untraceable weapons of mass destruction Networked cameras so governments can watch our every move A vicious scramble to own everything Weapons development fast enough to destabilize any arms race
or or or
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Dangers
Economic disruption from an abundance of cheap products Economic oppression from artificially inflated prices Personal risk from criminal or terrorist use Constant intrusive surveillance Oppression from abusive restrictions Social disruption from new products/lifestyles Unstable arms race leading to war Collective environmental damage from unregulated products Black market in molecular manufacturing (increases other risks) Competing nanotechnology programs (increases other risks)
2004
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www.Wise-Nano.org
A collaborative project to study the facts and implications of advanced nanotechnology a website for researchers worldwide to work together, helping to build an understanding of the technologies, their effects, and what to do about them.
2004
www.CRNano.org
2004